Host Ian Cockburn (of the Shropshire Cockburns) is rejoined by storyteller and writer Matthew Bellwood to discuss [i]Psmith Journalist[/i], the third Psmith novel, and one of the first of Wodehouse's novels to be set in America. The novel first appeared in [i]The Captain[/i] from 1909-10 but didn't appear in book form till 1915, by which point it had already been repurposed in 1912 for the US version of [i]The Prince and Betty[/i]

A tale of yellow journalism in gangland New York. 

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Other works by Wodehouse mentioned:

[i]Mike and Psmith[/i]

[i]The Luck of the Bodkins[/i]

[i]Psmith in the City[/i]

[i]The Prince and Betty[/i]

[i]A Gentleman of Leisure[/i]

The [i]Kid Brady[/i] stories

[i]The Little Nugget[/i]

[i]The Luck Stone[/i]

"The Episode of the Live Weekly"

Reference works consulted:

Sophie Ratcliffe, [i]P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters[/i]

Robert McCrum, [i]Wodehouse: A Life[/i]

Norman Murphy, [i]A Wodehouse Handbook[/i]

Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website

Also mentioned:

[i]Columbo, Strange Bedfellows[/i]

[i]Twin Peaks[/i]

[i]The Godfather[/i]

[i]Boardwalk Empire[/i]

Charles Dickens, [i]David Copperfield[/i]

[i]Colin From Accounts[/i]

Carol Vorderman

Ted Kessler, [i]Paper Cuts[/i]

Al Capone

Monk Eastman

Groucho Marx

[i]Doctor Who[/i]

Sandie Shaw, "Reviewing the Situation"

John Mitchell Jr.

Stella Gibbons, [i]Cold Comfort Farm[/i]

Cole Porter

Noël Coward

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